Solar Cooker Dish Radio Telescope @ LRO fully assembled for first time 3/11/2024
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Rush job to get it ready for the SARA Drakes Lounge meeting on 3/11/2024! (i.e. put together on the day after I had made and painted mount in previous week).…
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Solar Cooker dish telescope and wooden mount as of 2/11/2024
Now found way to mount cantenna at focal point. Also, wooden mount now painted. Andy
Building wooden mount for Solar Cooker Dish Radio Telescope 27/10/2024
I am building a second wooden mount, this time for Solar Cooker Dish rather than Ptarmigan Array – but based on similar design to one I used for Ptarmigan Array.…
New Chinese Cavity Filter covering hydrogen line 1400-1427 MHz
I have just taken delivery of a new hydrogen cavity filter from China. Click below to read cavity filter specifications. https://www.astronomy.me.uk/wp-content/uploads/2024/10/WT-A9940-Q08-1-2.pdf Click below to read the test report on this…
First Light new 1400-1427 MHz (covering Hydrogen Line) Cavity Filter from China 15-16/10/2024
Analysis of Ptarmigan Array data 10-15/10/2024, using Nooelec SAWBird H1 LNA only: Analysis of Ptarmigan Array data 15-16/10/2024, using Nooelec SAWBird H1 LNA & also Cavity Filter, at same elevation…
Radio signal of aurora during major auroral (Northern Lights) UK display midnight 10-11/10/2024
The auroral trace is this purple strip to left of the meteor on the right hand side plot – this is not a carrier as this would appear on exactly…
Solar Cooker Dish Radio Telescope data analysis up to 8/10/2024, 2pm.
I analysed the data collected by ezCol in the ezRA software suite (Ted Cline) today – after around 1 week of data collection using this new instrument, I have 24…
Presentation on Solar Cooker Radio Telescope so far to Society of Amateur Radio Astronomy (SARA) 7/10/2024
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Processing first light data from solar cooker radio telescope 6/10/2024
Hot off the press! – only 2 elevation points – data from this week.
Next stage 1.5m solar cooker radio dish 3/10/2024
Some cheap aluminium + zinc spray paint purchased from Lidl, UK, and using my cantenna cut for hydrogen as feedhorn.